![]() Nervous paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne prepare to jump over Sicily on July 10, 1943-the first American combat jump of the war. For his attack, Patton would use an airborne drop followed by a three-division amphibious assault. Patton planned to hit Gela Beach, in southern Sicily, while Montgomery would hit southeast Sicily near Syracuse. One of the sailors who saw Patton on the USS Monrovia, the attack transport which would take him to battle, described Patton’s demeanor: “It was to him not a ship’s deck he stood upon, but a peak of glory.” He intended, along with British General Bernard Law Montgomery, to capture the island from the Axis powers of Germany and Italy. Army had been packed into some 58 ships along the North African coast and headed to Sicily, the island at the end of the Italian boot. But once ashore, he knew what was going to happen: “We will not be stopped.” ![]() confided in his diary on the night of July 6, 1943, about the invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky. “Only God and the Navy can do anything until we hit the shore,” Lt. ![]()
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